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Wind-Powered Freighters
Feb. 27, 2015 — To make ships more eco-efficient, engineers have been working with alternative fuels. A Norwegian engineer is currently pursuing a new approach: With VindskipTM, he has designed a cargo ship that is ... full story -
Interaction of Atlantic and Pacific Oscillations Caused 'False Pause' in Warming
Feb. 26, 2015 — The recent slowdown in climate warming is due, at least in part, to natural oscillations in the climate, according to a team of climate scientists, who add that these oscillations represent ... full story -
Electric-Car Driving Range and Emissions Depend on Where You Live
Feb. 25, 2015 — Many car buyers weighing whether they should go all electric to help the planet have at least one new factor to consider before making the switch: geography. Based on a study of a commercially ... full story -
Time When Southwest Was Wet and Northwest Was Dry Aids Efforts to Predict Future Rainfall Patterns
Feb. 23, 2015 — The first comprehensive map of the topsy-turvy climate in the western U.S, 21,000 years ago has been developed by researchers. They focus on when the Southwest was wet and the Northwest was dry, ... full story -
NASA Satellite Sees a Warm Winter U.S. West
Feb. 23, 2015 — While people in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S have been dealing with Arctic Air, the bulge in the Jet Stream over the eastern Pacific Ocean has been keeping the western third of the U.S. in ... full story -
Caribbean Coral Findings May Influence Barrier Reef Studies
Feb. 20, 2015 — Research indicating Caribbean corals may be better equipped to tolerate climate change than previously believed could impact future studies on Australia's Great Barrier ... full story -
Climate Change May Dramatically Reduce Wheat Production, Study Shows
Feb. 19, 2015 — In the coming decades, at least one-quarter of the world's wheat production will be lost to extreme weather from climate change if no adaptation measures are taken, researchers ... full story -
Understanding Forces of Abrupt Climate Change
Feb. 18, 2015 — Research of Africa's Lake Bosumtwi sediments provides insights into abrupt climate change, scientists say. The lake samples were obtained by drilling 1,000 feet to the lake's bottom and ... full story -
Urbanization May Affect the Initiation of Thunderstorms
Feb. 18, 2015 — A study that assessed the impact of urban land use on the initiation of thunderstorms from 1997 to 2013 in the humid subtropical region of the southeast United States found that so-called isolated ... full story -
Sending a Rocket Through the Northern Lights
Feb. 17, 2015 — The combination of American electron clouds and Norwegian northern lights spells trouble for navigation and communication in the Northern regions. The ICI4 rocket will provide knowledge that can help ... full story -
Global Rainfall Satellites Require Massive Overhaul
Feb. 12, 2015 — A new study warns that the existing system of space-based rainfall observation satellites requires a serious overhaul. Particularly in many developing countries, satellite-based flood prediction has ... full story -
2011 Houston Heat Wave Led to Significant Rise in Emergency Department Visits
Feb. 10, 2015 — Houston experienced its hottest summer on record in 2011, resulting in 278 excess emergency department visits per day during the August heat wave, according to research. "The 2011 heat wave led ... full story -
World Thunderstorm 'Map' Key to Assessing Climate Change
Feb. 9, 2015 — New research will likely be crucial to measuring the impact of climate change on thunderstorms -- one of the weather occurrences most problematic for human life on the planet. The varying frequency ... full story -
How to Forecast Extreme Snowfall in Spain
Feb. 6, 2015 — The entire Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands are in the midst of the first significant cold snap for three winters. However, intense snowfalls, like the one affecting the whole of the north ... full story -
Ancient Snow Patches Melting at Record Speed
Feb. 6, 2015 — Norway is dotted with small glaciers and permanent snow patches that contain all sorts of archaeological treasures, from ancient shoes to 5000-year-old arrowheads. But climate change has turned up ... full story -
Satellite Science Improves Storm Surge Forecasting Around the World
Feb. 5, 2015 — A new online resource which will help coastguards, meteorological organisations and scientific communities predict future storm surge patterns has been created. The freely-accessible database of ... full story -
Heavy Rainfall Events Becoming More Frequent on Big Island, Hawaii
Feb. 5, 2015 — A recent study determined that heavy rainfall events have become more frequent over the last 50 years on Hawai'i Island. For instance, a rare storm with daily precipitation of nearly 12 inches, ... full story -
Smoke from Fires Linked to Tornado Intensity
Feb. 2, 2015 — Researchers have found that smoke from fires can intensify tornadoes. They examined the effects of smoke -- resulting from spring agricultural land-clearing fires in Central America -- transported ... full story -
Turning Up Heat on Plants Could Help Grow Crops of the Future
Feb. 2, 2015 — Crops that can thrive in warming climates are a step closer, thanks to new insights into how temperature and light affect plant development. Scientists studied the effect of light and temperature on ... full story -
NASA Launches Groundbreaking Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Observatory
Jan. 31, 2015 — NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to collect global observations of the vital soil moisture hidden just beneath our feet. The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) ... full story
- Time when Southwest was wet and Northwest was dry aids efforts to predict future rainfall patterns
- NASA satellite sees a warm winter U.S. West
- Understanding forces of abrupt climate change
- Urbanization may affect the initiation of thunderstorms
- Satellite science improves storm surge forecasting around the world
- Heavy rainfall events becoming more frequent on Big Island, Hawaii
- Smoke from fires linked to tornado intensity
- Turning up heat on plants could help grow crops of the future
- Building a better weather forecast? SMAP may help
- Erratic as normal: Arctic sea ice loss expected to be bumpy in the short term
- Storm Chasers Take on Supercell Thunderstorms in Bangladesh
- Bad weather warnings most effective if probability included, new research suggests
- How do small birds survive cold winters?
- Global warming doubles risk of extreme La Niña event, research shows
- Partly wrong with a chance of being right: Weather forecast
- Meteosat-7 becomes EUMETSAT's longest-serving operational satellite
- NASA, NOAA find 2014 warmest year in modern record
- NASA satellite set to get the dirt on Earth's soil moisture
- Deep Space Climate Observatory to provide 'EPIC' views of Earth
- Sudden jump in a storm's lightning might warn a supercell is forming
- Muddy forests, shorter winters present challenges for loggers
- Average temperature in Finland has risen by more than two degrees
- Birds sensed severe storms and fled before tornado outbreak
- Improving forecasts for rain-on-snow flooding
- Even in restored forests, extreme weather strongly influences wildfire's impacts
- Top weather conditions that amplify Lake Erie algal blooms revealed
- Glacier beds can get slipperier at higher sliding speeds
- Hurricane-forecast satellites will keep close eyes on the tropics
- The legend of the Kamikaze typhoons
- Temperature anomalies are warming faster than Earth's average, study finds
- New insights into predicting future droughts in California: Natural cycles, sea surface temperatures found to be main drivers in ongoing event
- Hurricane sandy increased incidents of heart attacks, stroke in hardest hit New Jersey counties
- Physicist presents new observational solar weather model
- Human influence important factor in possible global and UK temperature records
- Carbon dioxide warming effects felt just a decade after being emitted
- New study explains the role of oceans in 'global warming hiatus'
- How soil microorganisms get out of step through climate change
- Climate change could affect future of Lake Michigan basin
- Global warming skeptics unmoved by extreme weather
- Time-lapse photos and synched weather data unlock Antarctic secrets
- Opinion poll: Canada’s climate change consensus confronts Keystone
- Sun's rotating 'magnet' pulls lightning towards UK
- Wild weather in the Arctic causes problems for people and wildlife
- NYC residents resumed 'normal' mobility less than 24 hours after Hurricane Sandy
- Ocean primed for more El Niño, experts say
- Mars, too, has macroweather: But weather forecasting on the Red Planet is likely to be even trickier than on Earth
- Robotic ocean gliders aid study of melting polar ice
- Wildfires that could impact human communities in eastern colorado rockies most likely to start on private lands, experts say
- Penguin chick weights connected to local weather conditions
- Hail storms: Automatic detection and measurement of crop damage
- NASA study finds 1934 had worst North American drought of last thousand years
- Teachable moments about climate change
- New forecasting method: Predicting extreme floods in the Andes mountains
- Extreme weather events raise awareness of adaptation needs
- October blizzard in midwest not attributable to climate change, scientists find
- Climate detectives reveal handprint of human-caused climate change in Australia
- Climate change appears a mixed bag for common frog
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